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DHARAMSALA, India — Hundreds of Tibetans gathered on Friday at the Main Temple in Dharamsala, India to offer prayers to mark 49 days since the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje – the revered Tibetan religious leader and educator who died in custody in Vietnam in March 2025.
His followers say the Buddhist leader, who had been missing for over eight months, had fled to Vietnam to escape Chinese government persecution for his work as an educator and promoter of Tibetan language and culture.
A portrait Tulku Hungkar Dorje at the at the Main Temple in Dharamsala, India, May 16, 2025, on the 49th day after his death.(Tenzin Woser/RFA Tibetan)
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